Someone is not too happy about lobster season:

This comes from today's Palm Beach Post's Letters to the Editor section, Thursday, July 31, 2014:

"I am sickened and appalled at the photo of a man holding live lobsters in the air destined for a cruel death. The lobster is a living animal, not merely 'food.' Had they been kittens or puppies, would you have run such a shameful photo? We decry, rightfully, cruelty to dogs and some other animals, but applaud those who rip lobsters from their homes for the express purpose of slaughtering and eating them. Just because something is socially acceptable, that doesn’t make it right. I smell something cooking, and it’s called hypocrisy."

I wonder if this person is a strict vegetarian or if he/she buys his cod fillets from the frozen aisle at Publix. Few people have lobsters as pets. I remember the adorable "Snooki" saying this:

  “I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.”
― Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

We can very easily get detached from how food actually gets to our table in the mechanized, grocery store culture of ours.